Facebook is now one of the most competitive sites on the web for marketing your business and if you have discounted social media as not worth your time – you might be in for a surprise!
The new Facebook redesign will take some people by surprise and others will be just plain ticked off – we know that’s true, but just like in times past when FB made changes you will all have to get used to it.
Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it’s simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that’s right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous.
The most important thing I can recommend is this: If you are present and a presence on your fan page your fan base will grow just as quickly as your friends.
This list of Twitter apps and sites and some of my hints on how I use them, will provide you with some ideas on how to do the same for your busy social media calendars:
Your keywords need to be words used in ordinary (not industry) conversation about your niche, words the average person needed your service or product would use. One of the most invaluable tools to use is: ordinary people not associated with your niche, and that is where social media can be one of the most invaluable tools to use.
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Last week I was asked a question about having a Blog as well as a site on our Facebook Fan Page and this was the answer I gave:
AskAnnie: Q I have a site.. do I really need a blog too? A: This is really up to u, I like to add [...]
Engaging your fans has to be the very first goal, you need to know how your page is going to create and continue to engage fans. First of all look at the environment, the ecology of your page. Is it exciting to look at? Is there great copy in all the right places? Does the page have energy?
So what do we do if we have a generic site building software that claims to add the appropriate keywords and metatags for us? Well, some of us will be very happy we don’t have to go to all that trouble 
, and some of us will be worried that this just isn’t going to be good enough.
Building and branding yourself, yes you, as a trusted expert is far more important than advertising your business in ways that will not only get you banned, but ignored and blocked by other users. Here is a list of the ways you can get yourself banned from FB:
